My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.
Tony Stark: [after crash-landing in the desert] Not bad.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
